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...UPDATE: I should admit to one real possibility: Maybe I've been reading and watching all this coverage and yet I'm just too dense. In which case, please set me straight...
...three years with A Million Little Pieces, James Frey's presumed memoir of addiction and recovery. Pieces sales skyrocketed, and while the attention undoubtedly padded Frey's pockets and those of his publishers, it also shone enough light on the controversial book that the author was forced to admit he had embellished and even made up some of its most compelling passages. Hell hath no fury, of course, like a TV megacelebrity scorned, and while Winfrey initially said she stood by Frey, she took the stage of her talk show to announce: "I made a mistake and I left...
Early last Monday morning, I offered to help a student group I belong to with a round of postering in the Yard. I am, however, forced to admit that this was not an act of noble sentiments, a sudden blush of neighborly feeling that struck at dawn. I woke up to be an ethnographer...
...days. It’s not as though I’ve become a Hemingway fanatic overnight. I haven’t: I still hate Hemingway as a person; I still find him despicable; I still take issue with his cynical worldview. But yes, I now can admit that he is a powerful writer. I’ll no longer bash him utterly and completely—just mostly. —Sanders I. Bernstein
...realized how so many people could think this was simply a song about smoking. The lyrics are, more or less, “If you smoke, just smoke Zhong Nan Hai / Life takes off with Zhong Nan Hai.”Though they never could admit it for fear of government persecution, their song has a veiled political message. They are—very delicately, of course—connecting one controlling, harmful and popular force (tobacco) to another (their government). Angst and rebellion may not be central to the culture, but after a summer living in the People?...